Rumors are spreading that the U.S. Supreme Court will vote 5-4 to rule that a U.S. president cannot be prosecuted for anything he does while he is president. Some Democrats are suggesting that Joe Biden bring a gun to his first debate with Donald Trump. If he shoots Trump, he would be immune, but if Trump shoots Biden he would be prosecuted because he is not a sitting president.   read more

One state’s nightmare might be another’s opportunity when it comes to figuring out what to do with the detainees at Guantánamo Bay detention facility, which President Barack Obama wants to shut down. Republican opposition out of Kansas is so fierc...   read more

Eliminating billions of dollars in expenses from the healthcare system isn’t entirely dependent on Congress and the president to hammer out a complicated reform measure. According to a new report by the advocacy group Public Citizen, the nation co...   read more

Not every wealthy American is opposed to paying more taxes to help the country resolve its problems during these recessionary times. A group calling itself Wealth for the Common Good is calling on President Barack Obama and Congress to immediately...   read more

Having already taken what some South American leaders considered a weak response to the coup that ousted Honduras’ leader Manuel Zelaya, the Obama administration signaled last week that it may further back away from helping the former president re...   read more

Cultural coverage of Sonia Sotomayor’s ascension to the Supreme Court has centered on her ethnicity (first Hispanic) and her sex (third woman). Overlooked in the excitement is her religion. Sotomayor is a Roman Catholic. No big deal? With her co...   read more

President Barack Obama’s newfound friendship with the drug industry’s top lobbyist is beginning to pay off. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), which represents drug companies in Washington, DC, is planning to launch ...   read more

Congressman Randy Neugebauer (R-TX), one of almost a dozen Republican House members co-sponsoring the so-called “birther bill” that would require future presidential candidates to submit a copy of their birth certificate to the Federal Election Co...   read more

Combine religion, profit and renewable energy and how can you go wrong? Plans were revealed to build a 60-meter high statue of a popular Italian saint, Padre Pio (1887-1968), that will collect and recycle solar energy. This curious union of green ...   read more

Congressman James Oberstar (D-MN), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, decided last week to publicize the best and worst performing states when it comes to using stimulus funds for highway projects. Using a formula b...   read more

No matter how much a Massachusetts motorist might want to avoid a traffic fine, going to court to fight a citation is still going to cost them. That’s because the state now charges residents $25 just to appear before a traffic court judge to argue...   read more

By appointing his college roommate, Vinai K. Thummalapally, to the cushy post of ambassador to Belize, President Barack Obama followed in the tradition of George W. Bush who also chose a college roommate as ambassador to Belize. It didn’t hurt tha...   read more

There are plenty of reasons why the rich are not spending money like they have in previous years, including investment losses and poor-performing businesses, writes entrepreneur Dan Kennedy. More than half of all households earning $250,000 or mor...   read more

During the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush and members of his administration gave a variety of justifications for military action, which can best be summed up as “Saddam Hussein has chemical and biological weapons and...   read more

General Motors got not only a new lease on life from its government-engineered reorganization, but also permission to walk away from cleaning up its old polluted factory sites. From Michigan to New York local officials are seriously concerned that...   read more

In some respects President Barack Obama has done right by women—by including gender identity in the administration’s employee nondiscrimination statement (a first) and by signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. But when it comes to which members...   read more

Three glaciers in the northern reaches of the United States have been shrinking in size, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Officials with the USGS have been studying three “benchmark glaciers” since the 1950s to help understand changes in c...   read more